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"Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries - Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English (Hardcover)
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"Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries - Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal
advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange
for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a
pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward
marriage so sacrilegious that it puts Chaucer's pilgrimage to
shame? And who could have imagined a medieval series of plays
devoted to spouse-swapping? Jody Enders has heard and seen all this
and more, and shares it in her second volume of
performance-friendly translations of medieval French farces.
Carefully culled from more than two hundred extant farces, and
crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them
playable half a millennium later, these dozen bawdy plays take on
the hilariously depressing and depressingly hilarious state of holy
wedlock. In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century comedy, love and
marriage do not exactly go together like a horse and carriage. What
with all the arranged matches of child brides to doddering geezers,
the frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, disappointment, and
despair are matched only by the eagerness with which everybody
sings, dances, and cavorts in the pursuit of deception, trickery,
and adultery. Easily recognizable stock characters come vividly to
life, struggling to negotiate the limits of power, class, and
gender, each embodying the distinctive blend of wit, social
critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce. Whether the
antics play out on the fifteenth-century stage or the
twenty-first-century screen, Enders notes, comedy revels in shining
its brightest spotlight on the social and legal questions of what
makes a family. Her volume defines and redefines love and marriage
with a message that no passage of time can tear asunder: social
change finds its start where comedy itself begins-at home.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Middle Ages Series |
Release date: |
March 2017 |
First published: |
2017 |
Editors: |
Jody Enders
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Paper over boards
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Pages: |
552 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-4874-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: texts >
Drama texts, plays >
General
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LSN: |
0-8122-4874-0 |
Barcode: |
9780812248746 |
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